My basement cleaning "can of worms" has turned into a "bucket of worms". I have "STUFF" all over my garage, office, and home theater, that I have pulled out of "THE ROOM". I have piles of different stuff everywhere. One pile is bike parts, one is computer parts and another is car parts. The list goes on and on with no ending place. I have found long lost things that I had forgotten existed. I have found some valuable antique tools that belonged to my father. I looked some of the items up on Ebay and found I have some real keepers.

I found a box full of old photographs of my family going back over sixty years. One photo was of me taken when I was going through Navy Boot camp training. This photo was taken 51 years ago. I have changed just a little, I am much more extinguished looking now.

“You live and you learn, but if you never learn, at least you are still living.”
— Unknown

My basement cleaning "can of worms" has turned into a "bucket of worms". I have "STUFF" all over my garage, office, and home theater, that I have pulled out of "THE ROOM". I have piles of different stuff everywhere. One pile is bike parts, one is computer parts and another is car parts. The list goes on and on with no ending place. I have found long lost things that I had forgotten existed. I have found some valuable antique tools that belonged to my father. I looked some of the items up on Ebay and found I have some real keepers.

I found a box full of old photographs of my family going back over sixty years. One photo was of me taken when I was going through Navy Boot camp training. This photo was taken 51 years ago. I have changed just a little, I am much more extinguished looking now.

Attached are some of the photos I scanned in of me and part of my family over the ages.

First.. is age 18 bootcamp (51 years ago)
Second.. is me and my son Mike when he was 6months I was 22
Third.. is Mike age 18 and me age 40
Forth.. is My dad at about my age now 69, my stepmom, Celia my wife age 30,
and lower is my youngest sister Susan age 24 and me age 41.

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“You live and you learn, but if you never learn, at least you are still living.”
— Unknown

Thanx for sharing that mate. They're great pics. You have a wonderful family there.
So what made you want to become a seaweed sucker ???
Wom

Well I guess it's because I'm from a long line of Seaweed sucker's as you mate's
call us. Actually I was not in the seaweed division, I was an Airdale. I was aboard the USS Essex an Aircraft carrier. I was the plane Captain(crew) for the
ships COD.

An interesting read mate. That ship has been thru a bit of action eh ???
I spent a few days on the USS St. Paul, that was a real eye opener for me.
No thanks....I'd rather keep my feet on dry land....not up in the sky or on the water.